SquidWho
The team behind the useful Squidoo site have just launched something new, SquidWho!
I've found the Squidoo website really useful, if your teaching a class something on computers and want to assemble a whole bunch of links and text and images together it's really easy to use.
The idea behind Squidoo was it would allow Subject Matter Experts to easily corral a bunch of related links across the web into one place. So wehter you want to write a killer article, get into filmmaking or knit some socks, there is someone sharing their knowledge.
It greatest value though is it's usefulness is just putting stuff in a central place. So in early 2006 when we were doing internal professional development bringing staff up to speed with Web 2.0 developments we put together this. During the Learnscope Project with the ABC we used this site to share links during a training session, when I spoke at the 'Mind Your Arts' festival about video blogging we used this one.
Now the team have released SquidWho, the idea behind this is that it allow's you to create profiles of individual people, so if you want to know about someone you just type in their name and it searches for a profile. Unlike Wikipedia, it does not matter how globally famous you are, if your famous in your own neighbourhood that's enough. For example of some good pages check out Seth Godin, or Malcolm Gladwell. If the person your searching for does not already have a page their supercomputers scour the internet for info on them and helps you to start building a page.
I've found the Squidoo website really useful, if your teaching a class something on computers and want to assemble a whole bunch of links and text and images together it's really easy to use.
The idea behind Squidoo was it would allow Subject Matter Experts to easily corral a bunch of related links across the web into one place. So wehter you want to write a killer article, get into filmmaking or knit some socks, there is someone sharing their knowledge.
It greatest value though is it's usefulness is just putting stuff in a central place. So in early 2006 when we were doing internal professional development bringing staff up to speed with Web 2.0 developments we put together this. During the Learnscope Project with the ABC we used this site to share links during a training session, when I spoke at the 'Mind Your Arts' festival about video blogging we used this one.
Now the team have released SquidWho, the idea behind this is that it allow's you to create profiles of individual people, so if you want to know about someone you just type in their name and it searches for a profile. Unlike Wikipedia, it does not matter how globally famous you are, if your famous in your own neighbourhood that's enough. For example of some good pages check out Seth Godin, or Malcolm Gladwell. If the person your searching for does not already have a page their supercomputers scour the internet for info on them and helps you to start building a page.
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